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BRILLIANT tour! Definitely the best one they offer. Very interesting afternoon. I really enjoyed it. The temple and shrine are very good, and getting to feed the deer provided a nice change of atmosphere too. I would recommend this tour to everyone!
Reviewed by: Lorna B, United Kingdom, October 2008
The trip was awesome. The deer are so polite, they bowed when you fed them deer cookies cost 150 yen each. When you signaled them to bow, they did. Wherever I went in Japan, there were 0 beggars. Tokyo has 12 million people, but I found no beggars. It's amazing. The trip was well worth it.
Reviewed by: Bao Joseph V, United States of America, April 2008
Words can't sum up the almost eerie beauty of Kasuga Shrine and how amazing Todaiji temple and its statues and buddha all are! Our guide went at a good pace not too slow but not too fast either and ..well... Nara is beautiful. Both of my travel companions and I agreed that Nara was the best part of our trip beautiful forests, deer.
Reviewed by: Daniela A, United States of America, June 2007
Our guide was very informative about the history of the sites we visited. On the bus to Nara he gave us some interesting facts about Japanese culture which made the long trip more enjoyable.
Reviewed by: Alex S, United States of America, May 2007
The Todaiji is definitely worth of a trip.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States of America, October 2008
Our tour to Nara was very good, and the the visit to the Kasuga Shrine was a highlight despite the many thousands of school children who were visiting. Our tour guide was very informative and took time to make sure we could all hear his commentary. We especially liked the deer wandering around the park in the Todaiji Park. What a beautiful spot!
Reviewed by: Margaret T, Australia, May 2008
Nara was a fun side trip. The deer are very friendly but a few are aggressive when they know you have food. If you are spending a few days in Kyoto, I would definitely recommend an afternoon to Nara.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States of America, January 2008
This tour included much more than was mentioned in the brochure!
Reviewed by: J.T. M, United States of America, June 2007
It was an interesting tour but we had some difficulty understanding the guide.
Reviewed by: Joseph H, United States of America, May 2007
Nara is worth seeing and only takes an afternoon. Great guide.
Reviewed by: Keith K, United States of America, April 2007
Both driver and tour guide were very polite and considerate.
Reviewed by: Anonymous, United States of America, March 2007
The bus had a compromised air conditioning system on a day where it hit the high 90sF with humidity in the high 90s. We enjoyed Todaiji and Kasuga and personally, the paths around Deer Park had way too many deer droppings for us to pleasantly enjoy the animals on an extremely hot and humid day. The content of the tour was OK, we couldn't hear her half the time. It would have been nice to receive some of the cultural background on each of the sights inside the bus where we could hear better. Overall, it was OK. Very rushed but the sites were beautiful.
Reviewed by: S. K. L, United States of America, August 2008
Wasn't memorable.
Reviewed by: Michael P, United States of America, July 2008
The Todaiji and Kasuga Shrine were interesting, and the tour guides comments helped us understand the background and meaning of some features. But it's difficult to avoid the fact that a significant proportion of the total tour time was sitting on the bus, despite the interesting information being passed on by the guide.
Reviewed by: Monica P, Australia, June 2007
It's too short. I recommend to have more places in Nara or have a one day trip to Nara and Toda JI Temple.
Reviewed by: Francisco R, Mexico, December 2006
